Samuel Butler Quotes
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I love romantic comedies.
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Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.
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When you are writing for the Christian culture, there is a whole gamut of expectations.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited. They're right there waiting for it. A community of people who've been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them.
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What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
